Registering-valve.



M. & F. KLITZSCH.

REGISTERING VALVE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 31, 1912.

1,084,015, Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX KLITZSCH AND FRANZISKA KLITZSCH, OF LEIE'ZIG, GERMANY.

REGISTERING-VALVE.

Application filed October 31, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MAX KLrrzsoi-r and Fniinzisna KLrrzsoH, subjects of the German Emperor, residing at Leipzig, in Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering-Valves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to valves provided with registering mechanism, and more particularly to faucets or cooks for delivering beer and other beverages, and consists in combining a valve with mechanism which is actuated, for opening the faucet, by apply ing the glass or other receptacle to be filled, and actuates a counting device whereby the number of glasses of liquid drawn off is indicated.

The invention is illustrated in the acco1npanying drawing, in which Figure l is a front view of the device partly in section, Fig. 2 being a section on the line A-B of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a perspective view, Fig. t a detail view partly in section. Fig, 5 illustrates a modification of a part of the arrangement.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to t the faucet 3 is connected by a nut 9 to the spout of an ordinary faucet 1, which is provided in the usual manner with a handle 2. The spigot of the faucet 8 is provided with two curved depending arms 4, 5, the lower ends of which abut on tappets (3 pro jecting from vertically movable rods 7 and 8. The latter are guided in holes in a plate 10 secured inside ahousing 13 surrounding the faucet 3, and the rods carry at their lower extremities small arched plates 16, located within channels 14, and 15, respectively, the walls of these channels being formed by the housing and by vertical plates 14:, 15 secured to the plate 10. The upper ends of the rods 7, 8 have lateral extensions from which project pins 17 engaged with arms 11, 12 fixed to the actuating spindles of two counting devices or meters 20 and 21.. The latter may be provided with any desired number of numeral disks, five being shown in the example illustrated. The spigot of the faucet 3 is provided with an arm 22, to which is connected a spring 24 attached to the housing and tending to hold the spigot in its closed position.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13,1914.

Serial No. 728,923.

end of a vertically movable rod 26; this arrangement forms a locking device whereby the spigot is prevented from being rotated into its open position. Said rod 26 projects through a hole in the plate 10 and termi nates at its lower end in the channel 15, which is at the same distance from the spout of the faucet 3 as the channel 15. The rod is also provided with a lateral depending arm 27 which is located in a channel 14;, the latter being at the same distance from the spout as the channel 14L. The lower extremities of the rods 26 and 27 are provided with curved plates 30.

The faucet l is normally open, and the faucet 3 normally closed. For drawing off a large glass of liquid. the glass is inserted into the housing 13, from below, and is raised so that its rim enters the channels l4 and 14; abuts against the outer plates 16 and F50, and pushes up the rods 7 and 26. By this means the arm 25 removed from the flat part 23 of the spigot, and the tap pet (3 the rod '7 is caused to the arm 4, rotate the spigot, and open the faucet. The end of the arm 25, which abuts against the flat part 23, is rounded off so as to allow the spigot to begin its rotation immediately the rod 7 is lifted. but the rotation allowed by this roundii'ig off is not su'l'licient to allow the spigot to rotate into open position without the arm 25 oeing removed from the [lat part 23. hen the glass is full, it is lowered, and the faucet 8 is closed again by the spring 24. the rods T and 2t returning by gravity to their original positions. in order to prevent excessive frothing when filling the glass the conicalv casing 13 is provided with a lateral gap w -h enabies the glass to be tilted, and the faucet l may also be temporarily closed to cut off the flow of liquid and allow the oth to settle.

During the tilting of the rods '7 and :20 as described, the arm 11. of the meter 20 is raised by the lower pin 1'? on the rod Y and the meter registers one unit.

For filling a small glass the same is pushed up into the channels and 15, so that in this case the rod 8 is raised, together with the rod 26. The action is the same as that previously described, with the exception that. in this case the spigot is opened by the The end of the sai 'otro'ectin out of the rod 8 and arm and the meter 21 is actushell has' a Hat part 23, the face of which abuts, when the faucet is closed, against a short arm 25, projecting from the upper ated.

The glasses fit into their respective channels i4, 1%"- and 15, 15 sufficiently closely to prevent an instrument from being inserted between the glass and the channel walls for the purpose of keeping the rods raised independently ot' the glass. 'lampering with the device for the purpose of drawing o'tl liquid without registering the operation, is also largely prevented by the provision of two rods (7 and 26 or 8 and 26) which have to be raised simultaneously to open the faucet.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5 the meters 20 and 21 equivalent to the meters 20 and 21, are arranged so that the numerals are exhibited at the side of the faucet and can thus be inspected both by the person drawing ott the liquid and by a person in front of the refreshment bar or the like at which the faucet is used.

The channels into which the glasses are inserted may be provided with continnations extending around the rear part of the housing.

W hat we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. The combination of a valve and means for separately counting glasses of different sizes, said means including a plurality of counting devices, a housing having channels severally enabling the rims of receptacles 01'? different sizes to enter same, and actuating devices severally constructed for collectively opening said valve and operating one of said counting devices, said actuating devices being severally provided with means enabling same to be severally operatively engaged with the rims of receptacles inserted into said channels.

2. The combination of a valve, a counting device, actuating mechanism for collectively opening said valve and operating said counting device, a device for locking said Valve in its closed position, and a housing having channels enabling the rim of a re 1 cept-acle to enter same, said actuating mechanism and said locking device being severallv provided with means for operative engagement with a receptacle-rim inserted into said channels, whereby said locking device is disabled prior to the opening oi the valve and actuation of the counting device.

3. The combination ot a valve having a rotatable spigot, means for rotatin said spigot to its closed position, an arm [mod to said spigot, a counting device having a spindle, an arm lined to said spindle, a housing surrounding said valve and said counting device and having a channel enabling the rim of a receptacle to enter same, and a movable rod operatively engaged with both said arms and terminating at one end in said channel.

t. The, con'ibination ot a val having a shell and a rotatable spigot, means for rotating said spigot to its closed position, a projection fixed to said spi t and having a flat tace outside the valve shell, an arm tixod to said spigot, a counting device having a spindle, an arm lined to said spindle, a, lionsing snrrouinling said valve and counting device and having an opening enabling the rim of a receptacle to be inserted into smile, a rod engaged with both said arn and arranged to be operated by a receptacle rim insorted into said opening, and a movable member normall abutting against said face, to prevent rotation ot' the spigot, said movable member having a part arranged in the path of a receptacle rim entering the said opening.

In witness whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

MAX KLZTZSOI-l. FRANZl'SiC-L KLITZSCI I Witnesses RUDOLPH FRICKE, Doins KnnnL.

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